MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Tuesday charged a former Russia director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with conspiracy to take a $1.4 million bribe.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement that Yelena Kotova and a Russian banker combined their “powers as well as links in the business community” to negotiate the bribe from an unnamed Canadian oil and gas company in exchange for vetting a $95 million loan.

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